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The U.S. government will shut down on Oct. 1 stateside.
Around 750,000 federal employees— including those in the Bureau of Labor Statistics — will be furloughed, according to the Congressional Budget Office. That means September’s jobs report will not be released as scheduled on Friday, leaving the Federal Reserve and investors in the dark about the state of the U.S. labor market.
While the shutdown was only confirmed around 9 a.m. Singapore time (9 p.m. ET), it appeared imminent during trading hours on Tuesday. And markets seemed to shrug off such concerns, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average
